The ongoing kerfuffle over the notorious Danish cartoons continues. The deliberately provoked violent protests haven’t stopped yet, and I’m not even certain that they’ve slowed down.
There are times that make one wonder about what evil the future might hold…
Meanwhile, some cartoonists are fighting back. They are fighting for their freedom of speech, in their own way: with cartoons, mocking and satirical. Follow the link below to see all twelve of them.
Tip of the hat to Simon M., a reader who forwarded these to me.
In the old blog, Dave D. said:
ReplyDeleteMore so than even 9/11 itself, the Cartoon Jihad has eroded my hopes that we will be able to co-exist with the Islamic world.
I continue to support what we’re doing in Iraq and Afghanistan; we urgently need to find out if, with maximum effort on our part, Islamic/Arabic culture can somehow be “de-toxified” through the introduction of democratic self-governance based on Western notions of individual rights and freedoms.
But I am beginning to lose hope that it will work.
God help us all — and especially them — if it does not.